thunder wrote:
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:42:44 -0400, HK wrote:

Anyone remember these or actually have one?

I did!

One year my father found one new in its box left over from some previous
seasons and we used it on a dinghy.

It was just a 3 hp Evinrude, but it was painted a flatish brown instead
of Evinrude blue. Your basic outboard, with a horizontal lever throttle
and if you wanted reverse, you turned the motor around on its bracket.

Here's an old ad from a website:

http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2376...91848696oDpuFD

Not a Ducktwin, but an old Evinrude. When I was a kid, there was an old pre-cowling Evinrude in the
basement of a house my folks bought. It was a real beast. You had to manually wrap the pull cord to
start it. IIRC, it was @ 20 hp. Anyway, my Dad decided to put it on our rowboat that normally held an old
Elgin 7 1/2. Man that sucker was loud, and scary fast for a 7 year old. It didn't take him long to blow it up
though.





That engine probably dated from the late 40's...maybe.